In reading the submissions, I was fully knocked over by the brilliance of pieces by grad students that reflected how #surveillancestudies as an interdisciplinary field is enabling remarkable early-career work.

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Editor’s Introduction: What Does Surveillance Literature Offer Us? | Surveillance & Society

Plus my own rather sprawling introduction, which I hope can serve as a compendium of resources for people doing work in #surveillance art, especially at the intersection of formal literary analysis and #surveillancestudies.

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#RAi #PROBabLEFutures #FacialRecognition #Biometrics #TechGovernance #AIRegulation #DigitalRights #SurveillanceStudies #ResponsibleAI #AlgorithmicAccountability #PublicTrust #TechPolicy

Still time to submit your abstracts till 10th of January for #SSN2026! Join us in Lille!

All info: ssn2026.sciencesconf.org

#surveillance #surveillancestudies

I also reviewed Kezia Page's _In Tenement Time_ for this issue. Short version: it's a fantastic book!

A resource for #SurveillanceStudies scholars, but also anyone interested in C20 Jamaican lit and the genealogical connections between the Caribbean Arts Movement and the Reggae Revival.

Reminder! Deadline to sign up for @moderniststudies.bsky.social seminars at this year's conference, including mine on Surveillance Modernity (described below), is August 31.

#surveillancestudies

@ #surveillancestudies folks: i'm looking for a 'debate' in surveillance studies, preferably one that took place in a single journal. Right now the options I have are Citron and Gray's response to Richards in the Harvard Law Review and Whelan's response to Etzioni in Journal of Business Ethics...

(PDF) Innovating Alexa amid the Rise of Large Language Models Sociotechnical Transitions in Algorithmic Development Practices PDF | For about a decade, Amazon's Alexa was a pioneer in automatic speech processing ; now, however, new Large Language Models (LLMs) are posing... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ...

You can also find it on research gate:
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#VoiceAssistants #HumanMachineInteraction #PrivacyMatters #AIResearch #SurveillanceStudies #OpenAccess #DataEthics #LLMs #Amazon #STS #Platforms

Book cover of a paper-copy of "Voice Assistants in Private Homes", edited by Stephan Habscheid, Tim Hector, Dagmar Hoffmann, David Waldecker. Dark blue background, white letters, blue-filtered photo of a smart speaker next to a smartphone, which displays "Welcome Home"

Table of contents of the book in a photo of a paper copy (part 1)

Table of contents of the book in a photo of a paper copy

If you're by any chance interested in writing a review, feel free to drop me a line for a review copy...

#VoiceAssistants #HumanMachineInteraction #PrivacyMatters #AIResearch #SurveillanceStudies #OpenAccess #DataEthics

“This is groundbreaking work for modernist studies and suffrage studies alike.” Barbara Green @notredame.bsky.social

Learn more: bit.ly/3P2b2E2

@stephjayb.bsky.social #SurveillanceStudies #WomensHistory #WomensStudies #Feminism @uarizona.bsky.social

Call for papers for a conference at the excellent, new CEThicS in Lille, on #smartcities, #publicsafety, #surveillance etc. in October 2024 - deadline for abstracts, end of May. #surveillancestudies
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